Salman Rushdie Writes Back
Love and Openness Trump Hate and Bigotry. Reviewing ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’
When novelist Salman Rushdie appeared August 12, 2022, in upstate New York at the Chautauqua Institution, he intended to speak on the subject of safety for writers and other public voices. He was already an object lesson. After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1989 against the writer for The Satanic Verses, Rushdie went into hiding.
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